UPSC Prelims 2023 Question:

Which of the following organisms perform waggle dance for others of their kin to indicate the direction and the distance to a source of their food?

Explanation:

• Honeybees live in colonies with one queen running the whole hive. Worker honeybees are all females and are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside of the hive. They forage for food, build the honeycombs, and protect the hive.
  
  
• Honey bees use “waggle dance” to communicate the direction, distance, and quality of a resource to nestmates by encoding celestial cues, retinal optic flow, and relative food value into motion and sound within the nest.
  
  

Therefore, option (3) is the correct answer.

Subject: Environment | Biodiversity and Conservation